Israel: P.A. Statehood a 'Diplomatic Tsunami'

JERUSALEM, Israel -- 

The Palestinian Authority is now ready to function as a state, a new United Nations report concluded. The main obstacle to such a goal, the U.N. noted, is "Israeli occupation."

Palestinian leaders plan to ask the U.N. General Assembly in September for statehood recognition on all the territory Israel occupied in 1967, including Gaza.

If the P.A. is successful, Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak predicts a "diplomatic tsunami." 

"They are now refusing to sit to the table because they think -- and maybe rightly so -- that the support of almost two thirds of the countries that are represented at the General Assembly and they can get some kind of recognition of a state at the General Assembly," Gabriella Shalev, who served as Israel's U.N. ambassador for two years, told CBN News. 

Shalev is sounding the alarm that international recognition of a Palestinian state poses a grave threat to her country.

"Come September we are there - if nothing will happen in between - and there are still a few months that we can do many things, we are in for big trouble," she warned. 

Shalev says the Palestinians may well use an obscure U.N. resolution to bypass the Security Council where the U.S. holds veto power. 

"According to this resolution 377, if there is not a consensus within the Security Council, then it goes to the General Assembly which can take collective measures," she explained. 

CBN News Political Editor John Waage, who has worked for several years in Jersulem, explains the political implications for Israel and more.
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Η πιθανή αναγνώρηση και από τον ΟΗΕ του Παλαιστηνιακου κράτους και μάλιστα στα όρια των συνόρων του 1967 έχει πανικοβάλει την Ισραηλινή διπλωματία η οποία σε αυτο το ενδεχόμενο θα αντιπετωπίσει την κατηγορία της κατοχής των παλαιστηνιακων εδαφών.